whether right or wrong for what a high speed rail project can do. so i think that the people thinking about this green new deal, which is only really in a resolution stage also need to think about international best practices, how to get agencies to work together, and how to, you know, build these things more cheaply than we normally do in the united states. it is enormously important if we re going to do this, and we need to build a tremendous amount of infrastructure to figure out how to do it better, more efficiently and cheaper or nothing of this is happening. vann newkirk and dayan, thank you for joining us. tomorrow night we have a special show. our correspondent entrance fanning out across the 2,000 mile southern border from the deserts to the cities to the tiny little hamlets, from the vast grandness of rio grande to the busiest land border crossing in the world in california. tomorrow night we ll be live in
country. besides arlington, it s also happening at more than 1,400 additional locations in all 50 u.s. states, at sea and abroad. now, uncertainty reigns on the health care. a federal judge is ruling that obamacare is unconstitutional, has americans wondering what they ll have in the future. already fewer people are enrolling than in previous years. why? no individual mandate, cheaper outside plans, medicaid expansion and the unemployment rate is of course down. joining me is van newkirk, writer at the atlantic and posh barbara mcquade. van, the president is tweeting wow, but not surprisingly obamacare was just ruled unconstitutional by a highly respected judge in texas. great news for america. democrats already planning to appeal the ruling.
precipitously under obamacare and we know those things have had pretty big effects not only on people s health but on their ability to pay their bills. we ve seen foreclosures and bankruptcies have dropped, and that s linked to health care too. so if there is a plan, and we saw this happen when republicans tried to repeal obamacare, they haven t yet figured out a plan that s going to replicate those things in the same way and actually provide people the same benefits. so who knows. evidence there, i guess, what president trump says and what actually happens aren t necessarily the same thing. van newkirk and barbara mcquade, thanks for rolling with that and helping us understand what the president just said live for us there. now, under the microscope, why investigations are digging deeper into the president s inaugural fund. and the big questions about who was footing the bill. plus, the death of a little girl in border patrol custody sparking protests today at the border. what h
great again we understand. putting america first, we understand. thousand points of light, i never quite got that one. joining me from buenos aires is washington post bureau chief analyst philip rucker and writer for the atlantic, van newkirk. president trump has been cordial on h.w. s passing today. do you think that will continue? do you think that the dignity that ought to be afforded the passing of our 41st president will also be respected by donald trump? it s an important question, alex. the white house advisers certainly hope it will continue. president trump showed some restraint today. he was actually asked in that appearance a few hours ago alongside chancellor merkel of germany whether he regrets his past comments about the bushes. he declined to answer that question. he tried to rush the reporters out of the room at that point.
crisis and van newkirk, writer for the atlantic. let me go to you first, attorney. you re suing, you re going after the pharmaceutical industry and companies. this is a serious problem and it also is something that you re trying to get people that have been damaged some kind of just treatment, and not just in areas that have long been ignored, because my concern here, and i wrote about it this week, is that the people most impacted may not be the people most rewarded. that s exactly right, reverend, and thank you so much for having me this morning. the opioid epidemic has really ravished communities throughout the country, and one of the big problems is that it s being seen as mostly a white world problem and sometimes white suburban